Green approaches to reading encourages the reframing of texts in new andinnovative ways, and raises awareness about an issue affecting us all:ecological crisis. Furthermore, research and teaching need to address thisproblem in order to promote real change on a grassroots and widespread scale.

Participants in 'Sense and Sustainability' should address the themes ofsustainability and its concomitant stewardship within the general theme ofhow the present environmental crisis informs and deforms literary theoryand English language practice, written or performed.

Send submissions to submissions(at)egss-umontreal.org. Submissions shouldbe 250 words and should arrive by January 31, 2009. While focussing onliterary theory and English language practice, we want to stress theopenness of 'Sense and Sustainability'; entry topics may include, but arenot limited to:

We also invite creative submissions for an informal event on the theme ofsustainability. Participants will have 5-10 minutes to read, present, orperform their work, which may include poetry, prose, film shorts, songs, orart installations. Please send a description of your idea with one or two50Kb images or soundbites to submissions(at)egss-umontreal.org by January31, 2009.

University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.English Graduate Students Society